Volume 9 Issue 2 January 24, 2013

PRESBYbulletinPenn Presbyterian Medical Center

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Th e Board of Trustees, Administration and Faculty invite you to the 13th AnnualPenn Presbyterian Medical Center Benefi t.

In the spirit of this year’s theme, Top Gun, please join us for food, dancing, high spirits and a silent auction. Proceeds benefi t the future John Paul Pryor, MD, FACSShock Trauma and Resuscitation (STAR) Unit in the new Trauma Center at PennPresbyterian.

On Christmas Day in 2008, Dr. Pryor was serving as a combat surgeon with the U.S.Army Reserve Medical Corp in Iraq when he was killed by mortar shrapnel. His loss has been felt deeply throughout Penn Medicine, the city of Philadelphia and beyond. On March 7th, we will celebrate his life as we carry on his legacy of providing excellent care to patients.

DXA Scan Now Available at PPMC

PPMC’s Medical Imaging departmentnow offers convenient appointmenttitimemess foforr DuDualal-eenenergrgyy X-X rarayy absorptimetry (DXA, also calledDEXA). The DXA Scans are used to detect osteoporosis by measuring bobonene mmininereralal ddenensisityty uusisingng aa llowow ddososee ofof rradadiaiatitionon. ThThisis ssimimplplee, 110-0 miminunutete procedure is now offered at our state-ofof t-thehe aartrt GGEE DXDXAA scscanannenerr lolocacateteddinside the private Radiology Suite. Comfortable changing and waiting roroomomss anandd wewellll-sspapacecedd apappopoinintmtmenentsts mean minimal waiting and lots of privacy for our patients.

WeWe aarere sschchededululiningg apappopoinintmtmenentstsThursdays and Fridays between 9am andd 33pm we keklly. PPatiients can makkean appppointment by y contactingg the callcenter at 215.349.5454 and following the prompts for mammogram.

For more information or questions, g gcall the Women’s Imaging Center at

215.662.5680.

To purchase tickets or for more information, please visit www.pennmedicine.org/TopGun,

or contact Maggie McIntosh Event Design at PPMC.Benefi t@uphs.upenn.edu or 484.881.1988.

Contact Us: Katie Delach | katie.delach@uphs.upenn.edu | http://news.pennmedicine.org/inside/presbybulletin/

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A Conversation on Race: A Tribute to MLK’s Civil Rights LegacyThis year marks the 50thanniversary of the Civil RightsAct of 1964, which outlaweddiscrimination on the basis of

race, religion, sex, and national origin. To commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s contributions to civil rights, PPMC’sCultural Diversity Committee will sponsor “It’s Not So Blackand White: A Conversation on Race.” The conversation will take place on Thursday, January 30, 1-2 PM, in thePhiladelphia Heart Institute conference room (106).

The program will revisit the current state of race relationsin America 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Actthrough a frank conversation on race, racism, and diversity.Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW, co-founder and current president of Black Men at Penn School of Social Work, Inc. – a groupwhich seeks to recruit black males into the social workprofession and provides anti-racism and violence prevention training in schools – and a lecturer on race at the Universityof Pennsylvania, will lead the conversation. Mr. Lassiteris an accomplished, nationally recognized expert on race relations.

All UPHS employees are welcome to join us for what is sureto be a lively and enlightening conversation!

For more information, please contact: Bette Haitsch,chair of the Cultural Diversity Committee Bette.Haitsch@uphs.upenn.edu.

DEC(ORATING) THE HALLSTh e holidays were in full swing at PPMC last month, withmost units decorating the halls, volunteering their time to community events, and bringing cheer to patients who couldn’t be home for the holidays.

In the CCU, a group of nurses got together to show just how much you can do with just a little money and wholelot of creativity. Working together, they fashioned multiple decorations for the unit out of many diff erent materials including wreaths made from old music pages and carolers made out of paper towel tubes (pictured above). Th e group also used wrapping paper, old t-shirts and EKG strips, buttons, colanders, and burlap string to bring holiday cheer to the unit.

Also around the holidays, CCU staff served breakfast at the Gift of Life family house, participated in the AHA Heart Walk, and raised money and canned goods for TyphoonHaiyan relief. For more photos of the CCU’s holiday volunteer eff orts, please see the Presby Bulletin online athttp://news.pennmedicine.org/inside/presbybulletin/.

Did your unit do anything special to celebrate the holidays with patients and the community? If you’d like to share yourphotos and stories in the Presby Bulletin, contact Katie Delach at katie.delach@uphs.upenn.edu.